A Space Jam Live Read Is Coming to Toronto on NBA All-Star Weekend

If you find yourself in Toronto during the NBA's All-Star weekend, forget about trying to make it to the game. What you need to do is find a way to the Toronto International Film Festival's live read of Space Jam, the mid-'90s classic that I assume everyone my age owns on VHS. In honor of Jam’s 20th anniversary, TIFF is holding a live read of the movie, with "talent from the sports and entertainment worlds" promised to be in attendance.

For those of you who haven't fully experienced life, Space Jam is a semi-animated film featuring an incredibly high stakes plot, in which a retired-from-basketball Michael Jordan re-finds his love for the game by helping save the Looney Tunes' way of life in a basketball game against the alien Monstars, who have stolen the talent from numerous NBA superstars. The movie also serves as an allegory for how even the combined talents of the NBA's best players wouldn't have been enough to beat Jordan and a cast of clowns during the '90s.

The movie is legitimately great, and Jordan was fun as hell to watch in it. We've been teased with a sequel before as well—most notably with LeBron James—but if that never happens, this live read could go a long way in satisfying our Space Jam desires.

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